PCSS Podcast

The PCSS Podcast discusses up-to-date pain medicine and substance use disorder topics with the goal of increasing the general education of healthcare providers. These podcasts are not designated for CME credit.

Funding for this initiative was made possible (in part) by grant no. 1H79TI081968 from SAMHSA. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

Today we discuss non-opioid
pharmacological management of chronic pain with Dr. Kevin Sevarino.
Dr. Sevarino received his Doctorate of Medicine in 1982 from McGill
University and his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology in 1983 from the
University of Connecticut. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor of
Psychiatry at Yale...

Today we will be talking about
the use of naltrexone for the treatment of opioid use disorder
therapy. Naltrexone is an opioid blocker, or antagonist, that has
limited prevalence of use compared with buprenorphine, a partial
agonist, and methadone, a long-acting agonist. Joining us for this
conversation is Dr. Adam...